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M. s. MORRIS & J. BENDEIN.

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APPLICATION man mus 1912.

1,182,114, Patented July 27, 1915.

3 vwe atom are MORTIMER S. MORRIS AND JACQUESBENDEIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 6, 1912. Serial No. 669,725.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, MORTIMER S. MORRIS and JACQUES BENDEIJ, citizens of the United States, both residing in the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Signs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

Sheet pasteboard cannot be used successfully for those purposes where a low cost, non-liability to warp, twist, bend, break, or buckle,- and a considerable thickness of the sheet are necessary requirements. Thin sheets of pasteb oardare easily broken or bent and hence are not suitable where there is any considerable unsupported pressure brought to bear upon them, and they warp or twist under the influence of a change of temperature or from an unequal distribution of any weight or pressure to which they may be subjected. Pasteboard of more than ordinary thickness is difficult to produce and is expensive.

Our invention has for its object a device whereby all the above difliculties incident to the use of sheet pasteboard are overcome or reduced to a minimum and which at the same time possesses valuable advantages over the use of wood. It can be used advantageously in various forms or shapes and is applicable to many useful and ornamental purposes, one particular form being that of an imitation wooden sign capable of having printed upon it appropriate mottoes or advertisements.

We have found that a flexible binder supported by a cellular base produces a device which possesses extraordinary resistance to a bending, breaking, or buckling action.

This is particularly true if two or more layers of cellular or corrugated 'pasteboard, each .consisting of two pieces of pasteboard in parallel planes to each other andseparated by cellular supporting means, be placed upon each other and surrounded by a flexible binding material, the result thus produced possessing great rigidity and strength. We have found that this rigidity and strength can be further increased if these two pieces of cellular pasteboard are allowed to rest upon each other without being glued or fastened together, so that there is a possibility of their movement one upon the other when subjected to unequal strains or pressures, in which case the danger of buckling is almost completely overcome, as the slight movement of the cellular layers will-allow of a more equal distribution of the strain. The last-described device possesses the further advantage of having Patented July 27, 1915.

duced is much stronger, more rigid, much lighter, and considerably cheaper than sheet pasteboard of the same thickness. It possesses the further advantage that the flexible binding material may, as in the case of paper, he made to represent or imitate Wood, and its surface is such that it can be much more easily, cheaply, and effectively printed upon than in the use of wood. By cellular or corrugated materials, we mean a material formed by two parallel surfaces, supported and separated from each other by thin partitions forming cellular air spaces.

One form of our device is shown in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a front view of one form of our device with a portion of the exterior surface broken away, showing the interior cellular member. Fig. 2 is across-section of this particular form of device through the line 22 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 illustrates another form of our device in which the two corrugated members are so situated that the corrugations are at right angles to each other.

The form of our device represented in the accompanying drawings consists of two cellular members one member comprising A, A, separated from each other by the corrugations C, and the other member comprising B, B, separated from each other by the. corrugations C, the two cellular members being placed in juxtaposition to each other. These members are preferably made of pasteboard. Situated on each side of the plane surfaces of the cellular members are stiffening members E, E, and surrounding the whole is a flexible member D.

In the particular use of our device as illustrated in Figs. 1', 2, and 3, the flexible member D, supported by-the cellular base consisting of the two cellular members A, A, and B, B, is shown attached at each end to a post or supporting member, said supporting member being of a substantially L-shape in cross-section, consisting of the. two L-extensions F and G. The particular method of attachment of our devices to the supporting member, shown in the illustrations, consists in placing the device within the angle of the L-shaped supporting memher. A portion E, of the stiffening member E, is shown extended beyond the end of the cellular members and turned over so as to lap across the end of the device and fit within the inner edge of the L-shaped extension F, to which it may be attached by some suitable cement. The flexible binder D is shown extended at D, beyond the end of the device and carried over the end of the L-eXtension F, to which it may be attached by some suitable cement. The binder D may also be cemented or otherwise suitably attached to the inner edge of the L- extension G. The portion E may be ccmented to the ends of the cellular members.

By this means an extremely secure and rigid attachment is made between the cellular supported flexible binder and the supporting member or post.

r The flexible binder D in the device shown can be made of paper bearing impressions simulating wood. and which is admirably suited for carrying mottoes or advertising matter in the form of a durable, cheap, and attractive sign.

The two cellular members composing the cellular base may he placed in such a position that the corrugations are parallel to each other. A form of this is illustrated in Fig. 3. Or they may be placed in such a position that they are transversely disposed.

We do not limit ourselves to any size or shape of ournew device, to the material of which it is formed, to the material of the binder, or to the particular means described for combining it with the supporting posts, all of which may bevaried and departed from without going beyond the scope of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A sign, comprising .a plurality of superposed cellular paste-board sheets unattached to each other, a flexible material surrounding the cellular sheets, the whole being attached together by rigid members at each end. 2. A sign, comprising a plurality of superposed cellular paste-board sheets unattached to each other, a flexible material surrounding the cellular sheets, a stiffening member between the cellular sheets and the flexible material, the whole being attached together by rigid members at each end.

3. A sign, comprising a plurality of superposed cellular paste-board sheets unattached to each other, a flexible material surrounding the cellular sheets, a stiiiening member between the cellular sheets and the flexible material, the whole device being attached to a member substantially L-shaped in cross-section at each end by the stiffening member being fixedly attached to the inner face of each L-shaped member.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MORTIMER S. MORRIS. JACQUES BENDEIN. Witnesses:

WM. D. ZAHRT, Gnome E. Lrrscnm'z. 

